WEBVTT NEWS.SCOTT: POLICE IN JACKSONVILLE,FLORIDA ARE CREDITINGIMPROVEMENTS TO A FINGERIDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, TO THEARREST OF A FRENCH QUARTERSTREET PERFORMER IN A COLD CASEMURDER.JACKSONVILLE POLICE SAID THATTHE 1974 KILLING IS THE OLDESTCOLD CASE IN THEIR DEPARMENT'SHISTORY.60-YEAR-OLD JOHNIE MILLER, WHOHAS PERFORMED IN THE QUARTER FORDECADES, IS BEING HELD IN THEORLEANS JUSTICE CENTER.POLICE SAY MILLER, WHO WAS 17 ATTHE TIME, WALKED UP TO THECOUNTER OF A FOOD STORE WITHSOME ITEMS AND A GUN, DEMANDINGMONEY.THE VICTIM, 34-YEAR-OLD FREDDIEFARRAH, SWIPED AT THE GUN ANDTHAT'S WHEN INVESTIGATORS SAYMILLER SHOT HIM AND RAN OUT OFTHE STORE.>> SO OUR EVIDENCE TECHNICIANSPROCESSED THAT SCENE BACK IN1974 AND LIFTED LATENT PRINTSFROM ITEMS THAT WERE THAT WERELEFT BEHIND ON THE COUNTER BYOUR SUSPECT, MILLER AT THE SCENE, OF THE CRIME.THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE AFISTECHNOLOGY OVER THE YEARS SINCETHAT TIME HAD OCCURREDCONTRIBUTED TO OUR ABILITY TOREEXAMINE THE PRINTS AND GET AHIT WHERE THESE PRINTS WEREPREVIOUSLY NOT IDENTIFIABLE.SCOTT: MILLER'S NEXT HEARING ISON JUNE 26.HE HAS REFUSED TO WAIVEEXTRADITION BACK TO

Edwards' order was necessary after Miller refused to voluntarily return to face the charges stemming from a 1974 case involving the death of 34-year-old Freddie Farah. The 60-year-old Miller was linked to the slaying after evidence matched an FBI profile.

Miller performed in the French Quarter as a human statue for more than two decades.

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